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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 6, 2018

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PM Netanyahu (right) briefs foreign diplomats on Israel's border with Lebanon, December 6, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Netanyahu: Hezbollah aims to send battalions to grab land, kill Israelis, kidnap

By Raphael Ahren

Israel says it shared tunnel details with Lebanon and UN, calls for sanctions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lebanon says Israel gave no evidence of Hezbollah attack tunnels

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Army claims Hezbollah aimed to use tunnels to cut off Metulla, launch war

By Judah Ari Gross

The Israeli military drills into the soil south of the Lebanese border in an effort to locate and destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels that it says entered Israeli territory, on December 5, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Ex-defense minister admits officials lied about Hezbollah tunnels for years

By Judah Ari Gross

Moshe Ya’alon defends hiding knowledge of subterranean threat from residents of northern Israel, says it was for their own good and to trick the Lebanese terror group

Opposition head accuses Netanyahu of inflating anti-tunnel operation

By AFP and ToI Staff

London, Berlin condemn Hezbollah tunnels, back Israeli border operation

All may not be as it seems as IDF, Hezbollah play hide and seek over tunnels

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldiers show UNIFIL commander Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col a Hezbollah tunnel that penetrated Israeli territory from southern Lebanon, on December 6, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

UNIFIL confirms existence of tunnel from Lebanon into Israeli territory

UN peacekeeping force says it will speak with Lebanese officials regarding matter after touring first of two underground passages discovered by IDF

7:22 pm

UNIFIL confirms existence of tunnel from Lebanon into Israeli territory
6:52 pm

PM said Yedioth publisher threatened to destroy his family -- report
6:26 pm

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz begins forming own party -- report

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley talks with Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon before a vote in the General Assembly, June 13, 2018 in New York. (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)

UN to vote on Haley’s last stand: Condemning Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘We will get a majority no matter what,’ Israeli envoy assures; if it passes, resolution would mark the first time the General Assembly condemned the Gaza-based terror group

Palestinians stand next to the remains of a car allegedly used by Israeli special forces during an operation in Gaza, which was was later destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF special forces discovered by Hamas had been in Gaza Strip for weeks – report

ICC's prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, right, and deputy prosecutor James Stewart, center, at the International Criminal Court, ICC, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Nov. 23, 2018. (Piroschka van de Wouw/pool/AP)

ICC prosecutors report ‘significant’ progress in Palestinian probe

By AP and Raphael Ahren

Mark Lewis (L) and his partner Mandy Blumenthal in an interview with the BBC. (Screen capture: YouTube)

‘Europe is finished,’ leading lawyer says as he leaves UK for Israel

‘It’s time to wander again,’ Mark Lewis tells fellow Jews facing rising anti-Semitism in Britain and across Europe

Inside story

Australian sisters trace accused abuser’s steps to West Bank town where she fled

Residents of Haredi settlement of Emmanuel only vaguely familiar with, and not particularly disturbed by, allegations against former Melbourne girls’ school principal Malka Leifer

(L-R) Ellie Sapper, Nicole Meyer and Dassi Erlich in Jerusalem on November 29, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg is brought for a court hearing at the Kiryat Shmona Magistrate's Court on July 2, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects Safed rabbi’s appeal to reduce jail term for sex crimes

By Marissa Newman

Bahrain Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, during a meeting at the Arab League headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo, on November 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Bahrain’s FM denies plan for Netanyahu to visit Gulf kingdom

Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa says there have been ‘no communications’ with Israel over reported trip, adds that he would not hesitate to announce if true

PLO: In Oman, Netanyahu told leader he’s ready to cede land not security control

Israel fumes as Irish Senate advances bill outlawing settlement trade

By Raphael Ahren

Senator said attempting to put anti-BDS rider in US spending bill

By Eric Cortellessa

Tourists look at a view of the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount from the lookout of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old city of Jerusalem, on November 28, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Rare interfaith Temple Mount confab highlights a ‘Christian awakening’

By Marissa Newman

Aharon Aharon, the head of the Israel Innovation Authority (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)

Interview

Shoshanna Solomon

2018 saw Israel edge competition, tech chief says, but others are ‘catching up’

Past 12 months look to have set new record for tech investments, says Israel Innovation Authority head, but global competition and workers shortage present challenges for the next

Israel finds tech prowess a useful tool to burnish international image

By Shoshanna Solomon

From our blogsIsraeli technologies are making self-driving cars safer

Israeli technology effectively stops drone approaches during G20

By JTA

The Maccabees, as depicted by the Polish artist Wojciech Stattler (1800–1875) (Public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Analysis

Were the Maccabees religious extremists? Experts say it’s modern-day spin

The Hannukah heroes’ militarism may not sit well with American Jewish dovishness, but their extreme actions should be considered in the context of their time, scholars argue

This Hanukkah, you can taste and make doughnuts, known as sufganiyot in Hebrew (Courtesy Kfir Harabi)

Time to make — or eat — the doughnuts, and other Hanukkah treats

By Jessica Steinberg

View of Hanukkah menorah on the last night of the eight-day Jewish festival at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, December 19, 2017. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

US ambassador to light Hanukkah menorah at Western Wall with Netanyahu

50 preschoolers rescued by boat in flooded Rehovot as rains lash central Israel

Coastal plain pummeled by most powerful storms since January; key Tel Aviv intersection at a standstill due to water damage to traffic light system

David A. Halperin

Annexation – at what cost?

The half-baked idea would formalize a one state arrangement and render Israel un-Jewish and un-democratic

Michael M. Cohen

The dogs of war make headlines, the lions of peace make…peace

Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have been partnering on tangible projects that build trust and hope. Who knew?

The day President Trump announced the US Embassy move to Jerusalem

It was a critical milestone in US foreign policy, it took courage and it improved the prospects for peace

The Maccabees didn’t actually defeat the Greeks

The Hanukkah miracle is not so simple — it takes courage to be able to celebrate the Divine hand in our lives.

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Back to Gaza

A drive north from the Strip is the setting for the first of Haim Watzman’s current affairs-linked short fictional stories for The Times of Israel

More Headlines

The Facebook "like" symbol is illuminated on a sign outside the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, June 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Emails show Facebook used Israeli app to monitor phones, mulled selling data

By AP and ToI Staff

A picture taken on December 5, 2018, from a position near the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila shows members of the Israeli military, excavators, trailers, and other vehicles operating on the other side of the border. (Ali Dia/AFP)

Israel media reviewNorthern exposure: 9 things to know for December 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party, and his wife Gilat make their way to the ballot box to cast a vote in the Israeli general elections on January 22, 2012 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Bennett blasts PM after reported effort to smear his wife

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Israel Police Dep. Commissioner Motti Cohen. (Israel Police/Wikipedia/CC BY)

Interim commissioner Motti Cohen seen as frontrunner for next police chief

In this Wednesday, November 21, 2018 file photo, Friedrich Merz, former German Christian Democratic Union faction leader, left, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, General Secretary of the CDU, and Germany's Health Minister Jens Spahn, right, all members of the CDU, attend a party regional conference candidates for the CDU chairmanship in Seebach, central Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

In Germany, three very different contenders vie to succeed Merkel

By Geir Moulson

American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Medicine Faculty buildings at Ariel University in the West Bank, June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Netanyahu wanted Adelson to buy news site involved in graft case — report

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (R) raises the hand of Mexico City's new mayor Claudia Sheinbaum (L), after her swearing-in ceremony at the local Congress in Mexico City on December 05, 2018 (ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP)

Jewish scientist, first woman elected mayor of Mexico City, takes office

By Yussel GONZALEZ

A fire burns in Beit Midrash Morasha, also known as Arthur’s Road Shul in Cape Town, South Africa on December 4, 2018 (Screenshot/YouTube)

Fire guts a Cape Town synagogue, burning 7 Torah scrolls

By JTA

The scene of a car bombing in front of a police station in the city of Chabahar, southern Iran, on December 6, 2018. (STR/Fars News Agency/AFP)

Suicide bomber kills 2 cops in restive southeast Iran

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech before lighting a menorah during the start of Hanukkah in Ramat Gan on December 2, 2018. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Netanyahu told he can’t use foreigners’ money to fund legal defense

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Actor Rachel Brosnahan plays Miriam 'Midge' Maisel in 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' now in its second season. (courtesy Amazon Prime)

‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ season 2 gets glowing reviews

By JTA

Illustrative: A Rabbi from Chabad lights the center light on a 20-foot-high Hanukkah Menorah on the Boston Common, near the Statehouse, in Boston, December 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

New Hampshire town rejects menorah display. Christmas tree could be next

By JTA

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